Sentence examples for self-propulsion from inspiring English sources

When Gasore spoke of the bike, he meant something almost mystical: the embodiment of an ideal of self-propulsion.

And then there is a critical rite of passage, when a child moves from flailing his legs fruitlessly, to the first successful self-propulsion of pumping.

So far, she said, the sperm of the intersex males has shown some decrease in the ability for self-propulsion, but the males remain able to reproduce.

His vehicles were the first true, if embryonic, automobiles, rather than being simply carriages that had been modified for self-propulsion.

For some, the new regulation, requiring a written test on the rules of the road, came as an abrupt suspension of a rite of passage from childhood to a teenage world of self-propulsion, independence, romance and cool.

The degree of self-propulsion required has the real disadvantage of singling women out as "ambitious" as they rise in their careers - something that is perceived as unattractive in women.

Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

The self-propulsion point was obtained from load-varying tests.

A catalytic reaction (blue arrow) leads to a local concentration gradient, which causes self-propulsion.

Kelly, H. Xiong, Self-propulsion of a free hydrofoil with localized discrete vortex shedding: analytical modeling and simulation.

G. V. Lauder, E. J. Anderson, J. Tangorra, P. G. A. Madden, Fish biorobotics: Kinematics and hydrodynamics of self-propulsion.